Posts Tagged ‘process’

I recently participated in a really intense, Grotowski-based physical theater workshop. The work we were doing each day had to do with opening up in order to respond to impulses.  Now, this is something I feel fairly comfortable with in terms of dance improvisation and authentic movement practice; listening and moving according to the flow [...]


What is it that I am trying to make here?  Sometimes a piece takes quite a clear direction from the start of my working process, as in Dominion(2008).  The happy collision between the sight of a briefcase being carried up a subway station stairway and a Strauss waltz instantly generated the concept- a work about [...]


Another clip of Kristen rehearsing her solo. All choreography in both clips shown came directly from Kristen’s own improvisation. -Betsy


This is a brief clip of OSU dancer Kristen Jeppsen rehearsing my work-in-progress. The piece is a quartet for women and is based on memory. Music by Michael Wall. – Betsy


This winter, Propel-her choreographers will embark on a new exploration in choreographic process, extending our use of the collaborative model into the artistic realm. Propel-her members will work in tandem to create two new works, to be debuted in May 2009. One of these works will be a long-distance collaboration with Propel-her choreographer Betsy Miller, [...]



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